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Plus, I don't know which newscasts you've been watching recently, but the First Amendment is losing its luster lately. Some networks are even censoring their scripted dramas. -- Alan Shore (played by James Spader) on the television show Boston Legal, in the 2005-03-13 episode, which itself was rewritten on orders from ABC, the network on which it airs.

(Also reported at Disinformation. Discussion and copies of other articles at the James Spader Meeting Place and, of course, Daily Kos, where various possible explanations for ABC's actions are presented. PDFs of both versions of the script are linked from Media is a Plural.)

I'm really not sure why I just woke up with "Oliver's Army" stuck in my brain. It's been ages since I've heard it, and it doesn't seem to be connected to the dream I was having. Perplexed ... and trying to remember whether I even have any Elvis Costello on vinyl.